Evidence‐based intensive care medicine

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental (ICMx) is a peer-reviewed open access journal published under the SpringerOpen brand. It is dedicated to basic, translational and experimental reserach relating to all facets of critical illness. A prestigious board of committed Senior Editors and Editors underlines the strong belief in this initiative. The journal encourages high-quality submissions with th...

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental (ICMx) is a peer-reviewed open access journal published under the SpringerOpen brand. It is dedicated to basic, translational and experimental reserach relating to all facets of critical illness. A prestigious board of committed Senior Editors and Editors underlines the strong belief in this initiative. The journal encourages high-quality submissions with th...

Expanding intensive care medicine beyond the intensive care unit

Intensive care medicine probably requires the artificial boundaries of an intensive care unit to nurture and legitimize the specialty. The next major step in intensive care medicine is to explore ways of optimizing the outcome of seriously ill patients by recognizing and resuscitating them at an earlier stage. Some of these ways include better education of existing staff; earlier consultation; ...

Intensive care medicine--a review.

Care of the critically ill patient has considerably changed over the last decades with advances in ventilatory support, antimicrobial therapy, inotropic drugs and improved renal support. The survival, however, of patients presenting with major trauma or sepsis and developing the syndrome of multiple organ failure (MOF) remains poor, although this may partially be due to more severely ill patien...

Intensive Care Medicine in Spain